It's impossible not to be carried away by the rich arterial force of this storytelling.
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02/19/08
Gone With the Wind (1939)
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Reviews Counted:60
Fresh:58
Rotten:2
Average Rating:8.6/10
Consensus: Filmed and presented on a scale not seen in modern productions, Gone with the Wind is, if not the definitive Hollywood film, then certainly near the top of the list.
Runtime: 3 hrs 58 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Hot-tempered, self-centered, part-Irish Southern beauty Scarlett O'Hara, played to the teeth by Vivien Leigh, loves the gentlemanly Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard). Smug, rebellious, honest,... [More]
Starring: Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Olivia de Havilland, Hattie McDaniel
Director: Victor Fleming
Reviews for Gone With the Wind
Top CriticGrand old Hollywood at its most magnificent and melodramatic. Say what you like about the soapy characterisation and plotting, the spectacle flattens all in its wake.
02/19/08
Top CriticWhat more can one say about this much-loved, much discussed blockbuster?
06/24/06
Top CriticWell, even if it is essentially four hours about a selfish, silly cow, it's impeccably well made, and should be seen by anyone with even a passing interest in romance or movies.
02/02/05
Top CriticClear an evening and indulge yourself in one of the few films that can justifiably be called an epic.
11/12/01
Top CriticCoordinating six filming units at once and presiding over 50-hour editing sessions, [Selznick] subsisted on a regular diet of thyroid extract, Benzedrine, and B-12 shots.
08/21/09
The cinema event for which the U. S. has palpitated for three years.
02/17/09
Top CriticOne of the truly great films, destined for record-breaking boxoffice business everywhere.
02/19/08
Top CriticA lost Hollywood art: the epic melodrama.
10/14/07
A critic-proof movie if there ever was one: it isn't all that good, but somehow it's great.
12/12/06
Terrificly acted, staged and designed, Gone WIth the Wind remains one of the greatest period epics ever filmed.
10/17/06
Despite the star power of Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable, Wind has lost some of its bluster, yet it survives as a glorious Technicolored window into America's dusty, bygone past.
07/12/06
Forget it, no Civil War film has made a nickel, producer Irving Thalberg told Louis B. Mayer about a melodrama that would break records and become a unique cultural phenom
06/27/05
The film that perhaps defines Hollywood.
12/07/04
Top CriticIt's so full of iconic moments of plotting and dialog that a feature film could be edited just out of the most quotable moments.
11/12/04
...producer David O. Selznick's crowning achievement and a film that stands up as one of the screen's finest classics.
11/05/04
One of the classic films that defined American cinema, Gone With the Wind is a rare example of a collaboration involving hundreds of talents and egos that turned out great.
10/31/04
No review available.
04/30/04
Possibly the best loved movie spectacle ever.
04/27/04
No review available.
03/05/04
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